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Time Salvager
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
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Time Salvager
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Summary
Time Salvager: a fast-paced time travel adventure from Wesley Chu, the award-winning author of The Lives of Tao.
Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one's hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world, and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity's demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history.
James is a chronman, undertaking missions into Earth's past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. The laws governing use of time travel are absolute; break any one of them and, one way or another, your life is over. Most chronmen never reach old age; the stress of each jump through time, compounded by the risk to themselves and to the future, means that many chronmen rapidly reach their breaking point, and James Griffin-Mars is nearing his.
On a final mission that is to secure his retirement, James meets Elise Kim, an intriguing scientist from a previous century who is fated to die during the destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and his common sense, and in violation of the chronmen's highest law, James brings Elise back to the future with him, saving her life but turning them both into fugitives. Remaining free means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth, somehow finding allies, and perhaps discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity's home world.
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- Mrs
- 13-10-16
Spotty editing
Not up to Audible usual standard of recording and editing.
The performance was inconsistent.
Enjoyed the story despite this.
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- R. Maines
- 04-02-23
Drags in the middle
The only thing that lets this well told time travel story is the pacing, when James gets stuck on Earth, it just drags. But it picks up towards the end and I’ll probably buy the sequel.
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- James
- 25-03-16
Disappointing story with no clonclusion
I stared this book with excitement as the setting is interesting and I was looking forward to a fun adventure. I wasn't expecting anything extraordinary but even my mediocre expectations were let down as the book wore on.
From an good start the book sets up an interesting conspiracy with massive ramifications and then almost completely ignores it before ending with no real conclusion to events. The whole future time line has some serious holes and the magical technology is unconvincing, even for a time travel book. The characters arent anything special either so what's left is fairly weak. It's a shame because I feel the author failed to exploit a good setup here.
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- Call me Bob
- 03-03-19
Horrible story and narrator combined in one
I hated it.
Really struggled to finish it.
It has the worst of both worlds.
A cringe-worthy story and a bombastic narrator.
Do you know that taste of 80's Sci-Fi? With lasers blasters, pew-pew, zooming flying cars? This story manages to take everything i disliked about it and trow it in something written in 2015.
It is incredible! the stupid names for all the things, the unexplained and ungrounded science, everything was there.
And the narrator felt like he was REALLY living the most thrilling adventure of his life every single moment!
It is crap. All of it. No idea why it has such a big rating.
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